Monday, January 15, 2007

Listing stuff is one of internet culture's most preeminent pursuits, and I am no stranger to this pastime, certainly. Specifically I'm talking about pop culture ranking , in the realms of movies and music.

There seems to be two ways to do it: exhaustively, and exclusively.

The first can be time consuming (as one must catalog an entire collection, which might exist on shelves, in drawers, on book cases, in backpacks, etc., and might include upwards of hundreds or thousands of titles, to be bar-code-scanned or keyed in one-by-one), and subject to change whenever a new item is added to the library. But this method is objective, not requiring judgment by the list-maker, so for me at least, this can be done without much mental heavy-hitting.

The second type of list-creation, which usually happens at the end of the calendar, after certain anniversaries, or just whenever magazine editors feel like a "Special Issue" is due, is generally based on some arbitrary "round" number, making limiting one's selections an arduous process. You might see "Top 25 Nicaraguan Short Films Involving Jackalopes OF ALL TIME" as a film mag headline, for example.

Over the past few years I've done these just for fun, but as noted above, I find it hard to definitively choose a small set of anything and declare that these, above all others, represent my choice (heck, represent ME) in the annals of greatness.

Just in case, that site also bites the big one, here I will copy the list, so that it will be available forever and ever, amen (at least until Google, owner of Blogspot, is bankrupted by multi-trillion $ lawsuits from the MPAA/RIAA(/MAFIAA) for copyright infringements on Youtube):

Let me know if you want to do the ol' swaparoo. The only caveat is that my owned list includes tons of stuff I haven't watched yet (I keep a spreadsheet of unwatched/partially watched discs - up to just over 50 titles 8-D )

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